On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:40:31 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi Sebastien!
Hi! > According to /usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/offlineimap.conf.gz (it > is a pity that there is no `man offlineimaprc`): I think it can be created, it just needs to be explicitely done. There (used to be?) a debian bug about this. But yes, a nicer manual would be good to have. > holdconnectionopen = no > > This is a no-op, sorry, the connection *must* be closed between > refreshes. > > > Also I am not sure why you need to keepconnectionsopen=True for those > > idling 30 minutes. Surely you can close them inbetween? > Except for the fact that it is holdconnectionopen (I still do not > understand why the mixture of 'hold' and 'keep'...), this option is not > set for the remote server, but only for the local one. I see. Without "holdconnectionopen" (terrible naming!) we basically shouldn't keep connections idle for that long so that they expire. And when they do, we should detect dropped connections. I'll see what I can do about it. That stuff is from the stone-age, I have no clue why they chose such inconsistent wording there either :-(. > Nevertheless, it seemed it was actually a server-connection problem, > i.e. the ADSL on the server end seemed to disconnect from time to time > even it it was supposed to be a full-time, dedicated commercial line > (not end-user). However, after having changed the ADSL modem and > checked that the connection is not broken anymore, re-trying in the > latest days gives a similar error, but I am not sure it is the same > (fell free to clone this bug in case): > 1: [ 0:10] PcaHome: imap(luca.capello): Info: Disconnected for > inactivity bytes=17851/59486
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